Blueridge, North Vancouver: Homes for Sale, Prices, Schools and Daily Life

Blueridge covers a hillside in the east of the District of North Vancouver. Mount Seymour Parkway runs along the bottom, the Seymour River canyon is on the west side and McCartney Creek runs down the east side. At the top, the streets end at the forest. Berkley Road is the main street. It climbs north from the parkway, becomes Berkley Avenue and bends east toward Hyannis Drive.

The climb is long. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 63 metres above sea level for Berkley Road at the parkway, 99 metres at Carnation Street and 138 metres where Berkley Road becomes Berkley Avenue. Hill Drive at Blairview Avenue is at 188 metres, and the north end of Blairview Avenue is at 200 metres. The highest homes therefore stand 137 metres above the parkway.

Listings use the name Blueridge for the whole slope. The District's list for its Seymour community names Blueridge, Seymour Heights and McCartney Woods as separate neighbourhoods. Many streets carry the family names of well-known poets and novelists, among them Byron Road, Keats Road, Shelley Road and Bronte Drive. No source we read says who chose them.

In our view, Blueridge suits a family that wants a large detached house, a school within walking distance and a forest trail near home. Errands need a car or a bus, because the shops are outside the area.

Two local names have records with the province. The BC Geographical Names Office says McCartney Creek is named after Alan Edward McCartney, a Vancouver civil engineer and land surveyor who had land nearby in the early 1890s and who petitioned in 1891 for the District of North Vancouver to be incorporated. The same office adopted Blueridge as an official community name on July 19, 1979, on the District's recommendation. Its record gives no origin for the name.

The homes for sale here on October 11, 2026 were finished in the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. A North Shore News report of January 28, 1987 described Blueridge as a neighbourhood of mostly detached single family houses. The report covered a public hearing where more than 500 residents of the Seymour Heights area opposed the District's plan for McCartney Woods, the land on the east side between Hyannis Drive and Emerson Way. The plan included condominiums.

The west edge of Blueridge is the top of a steep slope above Riverside Drive and Chapman Way. Engineers call it the Berkley Escarpment. CBC News reported that a coroner counted at least six landslides there caused by storms since 1972, three of them in December 1979. In the early morning of January 19, 2005, a slide began in the backyard of a house at the top of the slope on Berkley Avenue and carried two homes down the bank. Eliza Kuttner, who was 43, died. The coroner's report, published in 2008, called the slide predictable and preventable.

With help from the province, the District then bought eight properties, four at the top of the slope on Berkley Avenue and four at the bottom on Chapman Way and Treetop Lane. Engineers working for the District studied 75 places along the crest where a slide could start. Their 2010 summary records that the houses on six properties were demolished, that fill was removed to make the slope less steep, and that every property on the crest was connected to the storm sewer. In 2009 the District adopted written safety limits for landslides. The District's park data now lists Eliza Kuttner Park, and OpenStreetMap places it on the slope between Berkley Avenue and Chapman Way.

Blueridge is a residential area with no shopping street. The map on this page shows no supermarket, pharmacy or clinic inside the area, and one cafe, on Mount Seymour Parkway near Emerson Way. The nearest supermarket on the map is a Safeway beside the Parkgate branch of the public library. Both are near the corner of the parkway and Mount Seymour Road, which the District's street data puts 2.7 kilometres east of Berkley Road.

The Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre is at 931 Lytton Street, on the south side of the parkway. North Vancouver Recreation and Culture runs it and lists a 37.5 metre pool, a squash court, a fitness centre and a small meeting room called the Blueridge Room. Windsor Secondary and its sports field are next to the centre on Broadview Drive.

In our experience, children here walk to one of the two elementary schools, and most adults drive or ride the bus down to the parkway each morning. The 214 bus makes a loop through the upper streets, so a home near Berkley Road, Sechelt Drive or Carnation Street has a stop close by.

Blueridge Park is in the 2400 block of Berkley Avenue, at the top of the neighbourhood. The District's park data calls it a community sports park and notes that the parking lot gate is locked at dusk. McCartney Creek Park is entered from south of Larkhall Crescent. OpenStreetMap shows a grass field for baseball and soccer, two tennis courts and a playground there, and the District requires a leash for dogs in it. Byron Park and Trillium Park are small parks among the houses.

The forest starts where the top streets end. The District's trail data names the Baden Powell Trail, the Bridle Path, the Hyannis Trail and the Berkley Loop here. On OpenStreetMap, the Baden Powell Trail passes Blueridge Park and goes down to a bridge over the Seymour River that the map labels Pipeline Bridge. The Bridle Path runs through the forest north and east of Hill Drive, and the Hyannis Trail leads north from the end of Hyannis Drive.

These trails lead north into the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, which Metro Vancouver runs. Its website gives the reserve 5,668 hectares and more than 100 kilometres of trails for hiking and cycling. Dogs must be on a leash in its busy areas and are banned from the paved Seymour Valley Trailway.

Mount Seymour Park is the nearest provincial park. BC Parks says it was established in 1936, has 14 hiking trails and is entered from Mount Seymour Road, north of the parkway. A company named Mount Seymour Resorts Ltd. runs the skiing and snowshoeing inside the park. BC Parks adds that visitors may need a free day-use parking pass in winter.